Long-term monitoring of dioxins and furans near a municipal solid waste incinerator: Human health risks

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 908-916

  Vilavert, Lolita ^a   Nadal, Martí ^a   Schuhmacher, Marta ^a   Domingo, José L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

ambient air; human health risk assessment; monitoring programme; municipal solid waste incinerator; Polychlorinated dibenzo p dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD Fs); soil; vegetation

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT AIR; AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CANCER RISK; CARCINOGENIC RISK; CATALONIA , SPAIN; DIOXINS AND FURANS; HUMAN EXPOSURES; HUMAN HEALTH RISK ASSESSMENT; HUMAN HEALTH RISKS; LONG TERM MONITORING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR; PASSIVE SAMPLING DEVICES; PCDD/FS; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZO-P-DIOXINS AND DIBENZOFURANS;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC POLLUTANTS; REFUSE INCINERATORS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK PERCEPTION; VEGETATION; WASTE INCINERATION;

SOILS;

DIBENZOFURAN; POLYCHLORINATED DIBENZODIOXIN;

AMBIENT AIR; ASSESSMENT METHOD; CARCINOGEN; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DIOXIN; FURAN; HEALTH RISK; INCINERATION; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MONITORING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PCDD; PUBLIC HEALTH;

AIR ANALYSIS; ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE INCINERATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; VEGETATION;

AIR POLLUTANTS; BENZOFURANS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; INCINERATION; PLANTS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEASONS; SOIL; SOLID WASTE; SPAIN; TETRACHLORODIBENZODIOXIN;

CATALONIA; SPAIN; TARRAGONA [CATALONIA];

EID: 84865272595     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X12453974     Document Type: Article

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